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  • Following n murder in San Pedro Sula, crime scene tape circles the house where the body lays waiting for collection by the coroners' office.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210629_4...jpg
  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210628_6...jpg
  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210628_6...jpg
  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210628_4...jpg
  • A hand is visible in the mud at the edge of Chamelecón cemetery after hurricanes Eta and Iota.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201120_33...jpg
  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
<br />
No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
<br />
Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
<br />
Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
<br />
Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
<br />
******<br />
<br />
I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
<br />
I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
<br />
I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180311_725.jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • 'Bertita' Cáceres, daughter of assassinated environmentalist leader Berta Cáceres of the indigenous Lenca organisation COPINH in La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras. Speaking shortly before the first anniversary of the assassination of her mother, Bertita spoke about the persistent threats against her mother and family, and the pain of losing their mother. She says that the assassination is a political crime, covered up by the state, and is part of a policy that has seen 123 defenders of land and environment assassinated in Honduras since the coup. Bertita is currently one of the leaders of COPINH, that is campaigning against the construction of a dam on sacred Lenca land.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COPINH_20170213_046.jpg
  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210628_6...jpg
  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210628_4...jpg
  • Following n murder in San Pedro Sula, crime scene tape circles the house where the body lays waiting for collection by the coroners' office.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210628_4...jpg
  • Following n murder in San Pedro Sula, crime scene tape circles the house where the body lays waiting for collection by the coroners' office.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210628_4...jpg
  • A hand is visible in the mud at the edge of Chamelecón cemetery after hurricanes Eta and Iota.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201120_33...jpg
  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
<br />
No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
<br />
Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
<br />
Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
<br />
Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
<br />
******<br />
<br />
I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
<br />
I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
<br />
I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180311_733.jpg
  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
<br />
No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
<br />
Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
<br />
Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
<br />
Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
<br />
******<br />
<br />
I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
<br />
I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
<br />
I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180311_736.jpg
  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
<br />
No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
<br />
Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
<br />
Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
<br />
Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
<br />
******<br />
<br />
I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
<br />
I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
<br />
I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180311_735.jpg
  • Jesus Waiting to Die. <br />
<br />
Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz <br />
<br />
"I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
<br />
I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
<br />
I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war." <br />
<br />
The health service in Honduras has been affected by large-scale embezzlement by senior government officials including the substitution of medical pharmaceuticals with tablets made of flour.<br />
<br />
Jesus died peacefully at home in April.
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  • Fanny Ruiz, San Pedro Sula<br />
<br />
Fanny’s son, Jorge Alexander, joined the migrant caravan, against her will, and got to the US border at Tijuana. One night, he was lured into a house with two other Honduran boys, Jorge Alexander and one other were tortured and killed, the third boy escaped. This follows months of hate speech in the media in Mexico and the US, against migrants, and the killings are being treated as hate crimes.<br />
<br />
"My name is Fanny Ruiz. When I was four years old my father killed my mother. My father was sent to prison for a while. Then my brother was killed. My next brother was disappeared, we never saw him again. Then my third brother was killed. Of the six brothers and sisters that we were, just us three girls are alive now. <br />
<br />
Thank God I'm still alive, to carry on looking after my children, but it's not great having to hide in your own country so that nothing happens to you. <br />
<br />
All girls and women in this country are in a dangerous position, many of us are scared to go out in case we get followed and raped and killed.<br />
<br />
I have shrapnel all over me, here in my forehead, in my back, my legs, my breasts. I was shot 13 times, they were trying to kill me. Thank God, I am still here, alive to look after my kids.<br />
<br />
I have worked in lots of things to take care of my children: gardening, farming, building construction, flooring, cooking. I’m good with money, I work hard, I don’t have any vices, but that's not enough."<br />
<br />
Fanny is pictured with two of her children in the cemetery, at the grave they prepared to bury Jorge Alexander while they were waiting for the repatriation of his body.
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  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • A policeman shows a picture of an assassination earlier in the day, taken on his phone.
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  • Family members wait for the release of bodies at the morgue in San Pedro Sula. Funeral service vehicles do brisk business with the current murder rate, the highest in the world.
    Honduras_hawkey_migrants_20140803_79...jpg
  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
<br />
No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
<br />
Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
<br />
Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
<br />
Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
<br />
******<br />
<br />
I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
<br />
I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
<br />
I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180311_721.jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • Family members wait for the release of bodies at the morgue in San Pedro Sula. Funeral service vehicles do brisk business with the current murder rate, the highest in the world.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20140809_01...jpg
  • Marco Rosalio Duarte laughs "Get that horse out of my picture!" <br />
<br />
Marco Rosalio is one of the leaders of the Federation of Pech Tribes in Honduras, I interview him in Pueblo Nuevo Subirana, an hour from Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras.<br />
<br />
The village has 850 inhabitants, almost all of them are indigenous Pech. There are only 6,000 Pech people. <br />
<br />
"About a quarter of the people in the village speak Pech as their mother tongue, everyone speaks a bit. Pech is taught now in the schools, but most people communicate with Spanish, particularly the young people."<br />
<br />
"The village is surrounded by forest, mainly broadleaf but some pine. The area is now a protected area, the National Congress recently approved it."<br />
<br />
"There are flaws in the reservation agreement. There are 16 white ladino families inside this new anthropological reservation, they have a bit of money too, and it's harder to move rich people than poor people in this country. It will be very hard to move them."<br />
<br />
"For protecting our area, we are threatened. Some families have entered our territory recently and have cut down forest and burned the trees to make pastures for cattle. Their intention is to make money. Our intention is to protect the environment, the forest, the water. We've made declarations to the police, and those people will go to court. This isn't the normal way of doing things here, a lot of violence is used, that's the mentality here. Berta Cáceres is just one of hundreds of people who've been killed for protecting the environment and indigenous rights. At the moment we have death threats against us for trying to protect the environment and our territory. We insist on the use of law to resolve these problems."
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  • The desert area each side of the US/Mexico border where thousand of migrants pass each year has extreme and inhospitable conditions that cause the death of many migrants, from dehydration and heatstroke.
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  • The desert area each side of the US/Mexico border where thousand of migrants pass each year has extreme and inhospitable conditions that cause the death of many migrants, from dehydration and heatstroke.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210622_486.jpg
  • The desert area each side of the US/Mexico border where thousand of migrants pass each year has extreme and inhospitable conditions that cause the death of many migrants, from dehydration and heatstroke.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210622_908.jpg
  • The desert area each side of the US/Mexico border where thousand of migrants pass each year has extreme and inhospitable conditions that cause the death of many migrants, from dehydration and heatstroke.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210622_804.jpg
  • La Bestia, also known as El Tren de la Muerte (the Death Train) is a network of Mexican freight trains used by migrants going to the US border.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210611_365.jpg
  • Jesus Defender of Water<br />
<br />
Jesús Salazar, Suyapa, Pespire<br />
<br />
"I am the coordinator of COCOPDDHHEP. It’s our orgnisation for the defence of human rights and our shared resources, the water and woods here. We began organising to defend ourselves four years ago.<br />
<br />
We need to defend the water. It’s scarce here in the south, and it’s our life. We depend on it to live.<br />
<br />
In 2003 we began to hear these promises, that the road was going to be improved and the church would be built, if we let the mining company in. The municipal authorities, our representatives in the National Congress, they all supported it. They promoted it. But, that’s not development for us. That’s the sale of our territory to transnational companies. It’s against our will and against our interests. They can always find an ally in the communities - people who will help them. They give them some money and brainwash them, but these people bring long-term difficulties for our communities, which will affect our children and grandchildren. It will poison them and rob them of water. We need to be very clear about this - they are bringing death.<br />
<br />
They came here with an environmental licence, which they got fraudulently, with the support of members of Congress and the mayor. But because we were already organised, there was a defence. We have 19 groups organised in the villages around here, and we have lawyers. We won’t let them in. They’ve tried. There have been confrontations and injuries. Twice those rats have come here with their machines. They even came at Christmas because they thought it’d be easier.<br />
<br />
They came one evening when we were planting corn. There weren’t many men here. Everyone was in the fields planting. Women with babies stood in front of the excavators to stop them coming in. Then, with mobile phones, we mobilised more than 300 people to come quickly with machetes and sticks, and we stood in front of the machines and we all raised our machetes in the air. The men they sent were
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  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
<br />
We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
<br />
I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
<br />
The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
<br />
The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
<br />
But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
<br />
I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
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One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
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Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
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I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Fr Ismael Moreno, known as Melo, is a Jesuit priest, human rights campaigner and the Director of Radio Progreso. He has received repeated and specific death threats recently, and the radio station has suffered attacks, including the sabotage of the transmission tower in Tegucigalpa.<br />
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After leading prayers at an ecumenical vigil outside the US embassy, he spoke about defending human rights in Honduras.<br />
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"The situation for us, human rights defenders, while Juan Orlando Hernandez is in power, is in permanent and growing danger".
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  • A honduran migrant jumps onto 'La Bestia' a train that is part of a freight network through Mexico. If he is successful the journey will take him more than a month and the most who take the journey experience one or more of the many dangers on the journey, such as being kidnapped and extorted, robbed and beaten, raped, being victims of accidents on the train network, extreme dehydration and even death in the desert, drowning in the rivers to cross into the US.
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  • The desert area each side of the US/Mexico border where thousand of migrants pass each year has extreme and inhospitable conditions that cause the death of many migrants, from dehydration and heatstroke.
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  • The desert area each side of the US/Mexico border where thousand of migrants pass each year has extreme and inhospitable conditions that cause the death of many migrants, from dehydration and heatstroke.
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  • La Bestia, also known as El Tren de la Muerte (the Death Train) is a network of Mexican freight trains used by migrants going to the US border.
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  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
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We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
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I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
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The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
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The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
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But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
<br />
I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
<br />
One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
<br />
I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
<br />
LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Policemen stand next to a water cannon truck in the Kenndy neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa. One of the policemen wears a skull mask, a sign of death, which intimidates protestors. Many protestors have been killed, disappeared or imprisoned by the police.
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  • Marco Rosalio Duarte is one of the leaders of the Federation of Pech Tribes in Honduras, I interview him in Pueblo Nuevo Subirana, an hour from Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras.<br />
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The village has 850 inhabitants, almost all of them are indigenous Pech. There are only 6,000 Pech people. <br />
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"About a quarter of the people in the village speak Pech as their mother tongue, everyone speaks a bit. Pech is taught now in the schools, but most people communicate with Spanish, particularly the young people."<br />
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"The village is surrounded by forest, mainly broadleaf but some pine. The area is now a protected area, the National Congress recently approved it."<br />
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"There are flaws in the reservation agreement. There are 16 white ladino families inside this new anthropological reservation, they have a bit of money too, and it's harder to move rich people than poor people in this country. It will be very hard to move them."<br />
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"For protecting our area, we are threatened. Some families have entered our territory recently and have cut down forest and burned the trees to make pastures for cattle. Their intention is to make money. Our intention is to protect the environment, the forest, the water. We've made declarations to the police, and those people will go to court. This isn't the normal way of doing things here, a lot of violence is used, that's the mentality here. Berta Cáceres is just one of hundreds of people who've been killed for protecting the environment and indigenous rights. At the moment we have death threats against us for trying to protect the environment and our territory. We insist on the use of law to resolve these problems."
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  • At a rubbish dump on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula people who pick through rubbish have found the body of woman who was kidnapped and tortured to death. Extreme violence and instability in the area are creating an atmosphere of fear and anxiety and waves of people are leaving as illegal migrants to the US.
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  • At a rubbish dump on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula people who pick through rubbish have found the body of woman who was kidnapped and tortured to death. Forensic police put on masks and rubber gloves preparing to remove the woman's remains. Extreme violence and instability in the area are creating an atmosphere of fear and anxiety and waves of people are leaving as illegal migrants to the US.
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  • At a rubbish dump on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula people who pick through rubbish have found the body of woman who was kidnapped and tortured to death. They stand on a heap of rubbish looking down at the body. Extreme violence and instability in the area are creating an atmosphere of fear and anxiety and waves of people are leaving as illegal migrants to the US.
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  • Allasane Coumbassa, at the Conakry City Morgue. The morgue dealt with many Ebola deaths, Ousmane complained of inadequate protective measures, clothing or waste management to deal with the Ebola .
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